Find and Delete Duplicate Animation Files

The animation is a perfect illusion. It is basically a series of images that are manipulated to make them appear as a moving image or an animation. Animations are generated nowadays with the help of ultra-complex computer programs, with most of them being 3D and 2D.

Animations are heavily used these days in the media industry, video games, motion graphics, and many other fields. Some of the most common software programs used to draw animations include Adobe Animate, Blender, 3DPlus, LightWave 3D and so on.

The Problem

Animation files are also prone to duplication, like all other files. When duplicate content starts taking roots due to poor/little data organization, it affects your computer as well as your productivity in more ways than you can imagine. Perhaps the most important fallout of this duplication can be heaps of data here and there, which will cause a lot of headaches when there is an urgent need to dig out a particular file.

When a hard disk is filled up to the brim, it can slow down program load times. The clutter is occupying valuable storage space, which can and must be utilized for more productive usage. An architect needs to quickly come up with a concept animation of a project his firm has been pursuing for so long. When he is about to download software he will need, he discovers storage space has to be freed before he can continue with the download. This is just one of the many scenarios that can cost the users time, money or even more.

This makes it all the more necessary for users to have their computers in good shape at all times. But how do you take care of duplicate animation files? We’re here to tell you that there is a software program to deal with that. Will the program deliver picture-perfect results? Yes! Will it do the job real quick? Yes, unless you’ve gathered truckloads of duplicates. And by the way, the greater the number (or volume) of duplicate animation files, the greater the need for cleaning them up. Lastly, will the software program be simple enough and not too high-fi? Absolutely! In fact, it is a duplicate cleaning software, which scans and deletes duplicates files of all sorts (images, music, videos, documents and so on). So let’s kill the suspense and get to the solution now.

The Solution

Clone Files Checker will take care of the job, and fix the mess swiftly. It is well known for performing a fine job of ridding the computer system of duplicate animations (and all other files). Just install it, add the locations which you want to scan, get the scan rolling, and sweep clean the duplicates.

Clone Files Checker is super conservative in taking up system resources, super fast in completing the task and super efficient in detecting and deleting duplicates. There we described it in a jiffy.

And here is the biggest one, which we assume must have crossed most of our readers’ minds by now. Is this software intelligent enough to detect those duplicate files that are actually the same, but are named differently? An emphatic YES! In fact, this is the only way CFC finds duplicates. It simply disregards the filename while scanning for duplicate data, and goes deep down into the file hash (content) while comparing it with others to determine if it is a duplicate indeed. It uses the highly comprehensive MD5 hashing technology for this purpose.

So let’s now get to the step-by-step procedure for deleting duplicate animation files.

1. Download the Clone Files Checker setup file from the official website and execute it to install it.
2. Launch the program from its desktop shortcut and use the Add button to add up as many folders/hard disk partitions/external drives/USBs you want to scan.

   

3. The next step is entirely optional and you can safely ignore it and click the Start Search button to launch the scan. If you want to make changes, you can select the file types which will be exclusively scanned, and also set up a file size filter/range for the scan.

   

4. Once the scan is over, you will get a pop up that provides summarized scan results. Select the Review & Fix option.
5. Now you will notice the duplicates laid out in a list in the CFC user interface. The duplicates will be divided into groups, with each group made up of duplicates of a single file.
6. Click the Select Duplicates button and choose criteria which will be applied to all the groups while selecting files for further action.

   

7. And the last step is to click Select Action and choose between Permanent Delete and Move to Folder.
   

You can click the History tab of the software to check out past scans and all the information relating to each scan that might be of help to you. Also, if you’ve enabled the backup option in Settings, you can use the Restore option in front of each scan entry (in the History section) to restore any data that you might have mistakenly deleted. A detailed video tutorial section is also available for those who might need it.

We hope this blog post was helpful. We’ve tried to keep it simple, and not include too many details so that the readers don’t get lost. If you find Clone Files Checker to be helpful, spread the word. Have a good day everyone.